N .# if and you would not try it. 7 ttaloun, and -T refuse y/ / n. Good morning, gentlen: * This is uneh st] ubusiness-like,” said Glashi ed) impertinent,” said Bre’ on. ur time try honesty—take my advie er, tiles, sixpense,” he said,‘ Tadvised| Reerurn ov tue Oansan Now, | cesstal gan MLD it—yes, | ‘Tuesday's boat, and were re A re-useit. PM ac ver enter this bank | honors only less than those be An: | the Prince of Wales, : : e.” | entering the harbor, a triumphal proc ian,” said Crevasse. rsingn returned to the through the crowded streets, a torch ligh procession in the evening, bonfires ot every strect, and fireworks every where, 7 -—Our sue- | stowed upon | A salate of guns on ion SUMMERSIDE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBI Sumuerside Gournal. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1868, ©) munications. a} No notice can be taken of annonymous com- We must know the names any addresses of our correspondents as a guarantd THE ELEOTION. Tun approaching partial election in| Lot 17, continues to be the all engrossing | subject of conversation among the elec- | tors, and is algo viewed with interest by some of our contemporaries in the sister aR 5, 1868. Lecturers, who are kept constantly en- gaged; aud to this agency, no doubt, mnity beattributed much of the success uttending the 1. O. G, Templars, THE GOLD FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. Aone the many events of world-wide of their good faith. We cannot undertake to Provinces ; among these we notice that interest occurring every day, nud destined uesday last, we had the pleasure of visiting the Normal Sehool, now under the superinten- dence of Henry Lawson, Esq. We were yery much pleased with the arrangements of the school and the conduct of the schol- ars. A class of females were examined in a grammar lesson, in our hearing, and the readiness with whieh they «answered the aril CABIENY ate at opty, cant Wie ieinarions in and upon the houses, Clie Meee ne Y ing gl 1e8 on} wat by mnuang taken to show the valve ) wemiet. allway to the door) our people set upon the suceess gained at he stopped, tixed his eyes steadily on Har- | Springtichl —Haumorist, St John NB stive aud his wife, baby and Betsy, and : : Selug up to them, handed Hargrave a let- ter, Read it,” he said, at your leisure, and let me hear. Tthought L should find | youhere., Good-byetill we mect again.” questions put, convineed us that they tho- roughly understood what they were saying. A senior elass inggeography was also ex- amined. , ‘The questions to this class are putin tutn by a young man or a young | woman, in order to instruct them to teach. The answers, in= generak “were very” readily elicited ; still we were a little surs prised at the shallow acquaintance enter+ the St. John Zelegraph of the 28th inst., has an article which shows that he is tolerably well posted up in the political history of some of the public men of this Islund, but is not quite correct when he says **the Journat is the Union paper of Summerside.” In expressing our views on Confederation, and other public ques- return communications that are not used, to alfvct very seusibly the future of man kind, we plice prominently the Tate dis- covery of gold in South Atrica, ‘The most profound students of human affairs have relerred to the opening up of Californian and Australian mines as the grand means whereby the restrictions, which'a limited currency formerly laid upon cosmopolitan EARTHQUAKES, —— > oo THE REGIPROOITY TREATY, We copy the following from a late num- ber ot the Boston Journal: Tr our readers will turn to the map of South America, they will find, at the northern extremity of Equador, a city called Inanna, standing in the midst of the As the door closed on Brownsmith, Har Stave opened the letter, antktaking Grace’ ( Tt ran thus: An “net of kindness some- I um sorry to see you connected with such a bank. Oar excel- a ing old and wants help. Will you act as his deputy? T have no} MN finally replace him and be- am sure we shall get on well together,—I an, dear sir, im, they read it together, Daan Sin “oO times bears fy it. tent cashiey is gut doubt you wi come inost usetul to es yours trithlully, Jo. diumond hole directors were ¥ under. the supervis defatigable Cross, Jsondon commer ‘Their nor their trurks either. Wis very soo bonvivant, a g co umercial genius, When Iargrave opened the door of his} cottage that evening, a visiting card lay [le handed it laughing- ‘Mrs on the hall-table. Jy to Grace, It bore the name ot ut Drow NsMITi With what glal hearts Hargrave and Grave leit that doomed house, through the | in. whose shutters the three ching the mob outside, pn of the active and in- Shat night, the Ostend steamer bore off to the sheltering continent three us great anu plausible rogues as the tworld had ever known, pockets were by no means empty, ‘The New World uter cnriched by the addi tion of three enlightened citizens Lg sat philanthropist, and a Grandsham,” und below was written: My Daruna M horrible bank close for sou, Always leared it, . . mendous and disastrous upheavals are j . ana t Gah ba U EC bes oy eww a tar * Horrid ol woman,” said G 3 1 : 7 ; of whom have received their education] veological skill. Derr Maunch at once ; Nngy aie Mey whom the question was referred haying f freque: rong ser Vie : : 5 5 Ole hat ’ : 3 Curious to note that the great tidal detest her. So pleased to give pain, Bat ! ‘ , : }not of frequent occurrence, Lesser vi- | under the canopy it raised for that pur-| pronounced it a discovery of the first im- Iti Ls 3. Wancrave.—That in hour-ago, Sorry a treaty with Cana of Cougress, atthe next sessior It seems that Senate Committee on For substantially agreed on the necc initiating the nee a ty o yal of the old treaty in an improves ona strict trade basis. ‘The [louse Com mitte are reported to be unanimous in fa yor of Mr. Seward’s realizing the genera | desire of the comme | mitted to deter Congress from entering i: due course upon the consideratian of at arrangement of such urgent necd betwee the two countries. We have discovered that a family tr its annihilation, already secured we shall find it fare to proceed to desired results, than by ove turning existing ning all over again, ‘treaty with Canada before the winter is worn niway.” the next our trade relations with 5|,.7/ We are glad to be assured of a proba- bility of the reopening of the question of ; the House Commitice of ways ard Means and the eign Affairs are 'y proceedings for form or the establishinent of a new one cial portion of the country, and hardly less of consumers generally, We therefore sincerely trust that no further hindrances will be per- aty is not best mended by Upon the busis we have er rangements and Legin- we should have a The Boston Daily Advertizer, a very in- flucntial paper, says in connection with this subject that ‘sone of the ripest sube jecls tor the consideration of Congress at session is that of a renewal of the British pro- vinees, the committes of both branches to Andes Mountains, | Equator, they will then run their eye down to the Western caast, till they come to the southern part of Peru, they ! i rejoicing in the name of Iquique. Now the immense intermediate stretch of .| country comprising over twelve hundred -|milus in length, hus lately been visited by 1| one of the severest earthquakes on record, Twenty-five or thirty thousand lives have been lost, and property destroyed to the amount of sixty millions of pounds. ,| Phe extent of country shaken by the )| Yast internal powers reminds us of the i great Harthquake of Lisbon, of 1755, i/when a portion of the carth's surface, estimated at four times the size of Kurope was moved. ‘The shock was felt in the Alps andin Sweden, The great wave of motion came heaving far across the At- lantic, and affected the Barbadoes Mar- tinique, and Antigua, where the tide sud- denly rose twenty feet, and the sea as- sumed an inky blackness. yen Lake Ontario had its waters strangely agitated and Massachussetts vibrated along her coasts. T’ortunately for mankind such tre- And if after noting that itis within a degree north of the will find that on the twenticth degree! js our intention to pursue, in speaking of of southern latitude, stands another town, | | ponent, which would not be the case, had tions, we have aimed at giving an impar- tial and unbiassed expression of opinion, as we felt it to be our duty to afford in- formation to our readers which we con- | sidered strictly true; and this course it the important issue inyolved in the ap- | proaching election in this district. As stated by us ina former number, this clection promises to be a closely con- tested one; But the opinion seems to be daily assuming an aspect in favor of those who oppose Sectarian Grants, which ; seems to show that Mr, Pope's opponent, jin consenting to become a candidate, ex- ercised that caution so characteristic of Scotchmen, that now justifies many in Lelieving that when the race is run, he, like the plucky Paris crew of Saint John, will be a minute ahead of his op- Mr. Pope come forward merely as a can- didate in the conservative interest, with opinions unchanged on public questions. When the present Education Act of this Island was placed upon the statute book of this Colony, it was received with universal satisfaction by all classes and creeds in the Island, and around it are now entwined the warmest sympathies of the great majority of the clectors,many comaieree. Lave been of late years removed, and the vast trafic of the world has risen to its present proportions, If—with the dis- covery of steain, the colonization of new countries, the multiplied wants and luxur- ies of man---the amount of the precious metal, the circulating medium of the globe, had remained stationary, it would haye become altogether inadequate to the wants of men, and industry and commerce would have been everywhere cramped. ‘Lhe mines of the world,, through the direct providence of God, have, to a great extent, removed such danger, as by thei: discovery and energetic working, wealth—the sinews of commerce as well as war—has been rendered abundant. The netivity of the ninetcenth century, however, kuows ny bound, and such are the tremendous strides of civilization, such the demands of the fi- nancier, the speculations of the merchant, and the costly labors of the artizan, that we believe South Africa has opened up its treasures just in time to supplement Aus- tralia and Calilornia in their prodigious | bors for the casing of the commericial would. This discovery is another feather in the cap of that science which is itself of recent date,—we mean geology, Dr-Liv ingstone, the great African explorer, was the first to note the similuity existing be- tween the formation of the country be- tween Sekhome and the Zambesi river,and that of the gold ficlds of Australia, Some time alter, an clephant hunter remarked a extensive range of quartz, dnd applied t a scientific Gran, possessed of reputed tained on general information, by some young men re, ly from the count ills eset “awson 18, 1 OU? hum- @ opinion, an excellent teacher. The scholars do not seem to haye'that fear of him which we have often witnessed in many schools, where the masters act the tyrant instead of the tutor, His method of imparting instruction is natural and com~- prehensive, and attracts the attention of the pupil. ‘he ability displayed by Mr. Lawson isin strange coptrast with the false accusation of # correspondent in the last Islander. We would adyise that fellow, whoever ho may be, to visit the Normal School, and see and hear for himself, and not to jump at, conclusions and make state- ments without foundation. What matter whether My. Lawsvu taught a school in the country as first class teacher or not, as he has the ability to discharge the duties now devolying upon him. Itis much to his credit that, while teaching a country school, he was improving his mind, and qualifying hiumselt to fill the honorable po- sition he wow occupies, ‘he country has a rigitto be proud ot such men. It would be well if more of our country schoolmas- ters would do likewise, and we would res- pectfully tender this advice to the corres- pondent of the Jslander,and advise him not to be like the\dog inthe manger. We feel it a pleasure to say 8 Word in favor, of a gentlemen of whose ability we profess to hknow something. /) or was little known in public life, so long * determined favorably upon it.” wave which accompanied the earthquake in - Peru the 13th of August, was felt on the Australian coast on the following day, and that shocks of earthquake were also experinc- ed thers at the same tine. now wonderful that shabby old gentleman should turn aut a millionaire, who coud help us just in this time of troubletuo!? | ‘God bas indeed been good to us,Grace,’ saidhe. **Buteven in ruin your love would have supported ime, dearest.” Llargrave has long ago become a junior partner in the firm of Brownsmith & Co., and is as sound wud respeetable @ min of brations of the Earth's crust, are, how-|, 46; and scuh men say, if in minor Gyer SEL COMMON) COU nS doubtless | Qetails the act is imperfect, by all means every day in some place. Sach ashock) jut jt be corrected,—but believing : ‘ y , Bs our readers will remember was perecived that the principle upon which it stands throughout Prince Edward Island in| is sound, they will rally around it as common with all Eastern British Ameri-|